Before Stars

Hi Carole, 

The www.Extralove.com site remains down, but Curt was able to retrieve a portion of text from a backup.

Before Stars

Before there were stars night was an eyeless staring

with nowhere to look leading into, unmapped by any chart

and always losing itself. Because of this, women were born,

formed from the faces of candles, gasoline lanterns, or

kerosene lights, with nothing to see looking onto,

and which night knew nothing about from its distance.

Then came their flames rising like points from their

blind spots, forming stars, which night looking out of was seen

seeing women.

Carole Leslie Marcus